Quotes About Engagement

Heaven is here when Time is not. To live without Time means to live without friction, with no wear and tear. That is the space of non-engagement, non-interference.

I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It's not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I'll do it because it's a moment that will stick with me forever.

You affect the world by what you browse.

It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.

We need to shift our focus from putting on attractional events to creating attractional communities.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

There is a third way to understand the church, which combines what is true in both false images, and which recognizes that we have a responsibility both to worship God and to serve the world. This is the double identity of the church (or incarnational Christianity). By its "double identity" I mean that the church is a people who have been both called out of the world to worship God and sent back into the world to witness and serve.

When we think "mission" we must think "church." And the best way to link church and mission is through church planting.

By accepting its marginal status, the church can actually engage in a freer kind of service as a result of not having to be in control. Describing the power of powerlessness, he states, "Powerless churches need not wrangle over the relationship between evangelism and social action (this was always essentially about power), but can develop fresh perspectives on seemingly intractable social issues, because things look different from the margins.

For us, it matters that people use our products. We really want to enrich people's lives, and you can't enrich somebody's life if the product is in the drawer.

Always walk away from a fight. Then ambush.

If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.

When I decided to do 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.

There is no question that there is a capability that the Internet affords us to get a closer look at the customer and to be closer to the customer.

There's no question that the political is personal.

If I can't play, there's no reason to go. To watch the game without me in it, is just no point doing that.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

If we can make great games for PS3 players... how many PS3 players are out there? If we can make great games for everybody, that's a much bigger service. There's no reason I shouldn't do that.

If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.

I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

I can break the ice with people in no time. I think I can even make a wall talk to me!

It was a no-brainer for me to go on 'Mind of Mencia,' I think. And actually, it was a lot of fun. It was a really good time.

One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her.